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When I mention to people that I fly model planes the first thing that happens is that their eyes glaze over and the shutters come down....

Feb 15, 20193 min read

In 1914 the majority of the Hearts first team, then sitting at the top of the league and favourites to win the Scottish Cup, received a...

Oct 22, 20184 min read

Benefits cuts, austerity measures, local authority budgets stretched to the limit, households struggling to make ends meet, social unease...

Nov 2, 20133 min read

Just off the A71 through Polbeth there is a bucolic nook which seems worlds away from the hustle and bustle of the main road. In the...

Jul 2, 20124 min read

Usually described as Scotland’s foremost mind reader, he lives in Polbeth and is in great demand all over the country as an entertainer,...

May 3, 20105 min read

Its rooms, which once echoed to the sounds of family and socialising, began to echo to the sound of shale dumped on the advancing bings

Mar 1, 20102 min read